Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

Dorothy Gilbert

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Ernest Hemingway — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 85 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Gilbert Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Butler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Oct 1745 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jul 1803 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Plumb
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 May 1764 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  John Plumb Jr. (Ahnentafel No:42 )

  • Notes: 

  • Dorothy is identified in a Middletown, Connecticut, deed dated 1769 with John Plumb. It is from this deed that she is believed to be his wife.

• Sources for Dorothy Gilbert

  • ¹ Brainard, Homer Worthington, et. al., The Gilbert Family: Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582(?)-1659 of Mt. Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield, Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press (1953), 135.
  • ² Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 630.
  • ³ Hunt, Mitchell J., A Brief Corrected Genealogy of Captain Ziba Hunt (1746-1820) of Duxbury, MA, Newent, CT, New Lebanon, NY, . . ., Willow Grove, Pennsylvania: n.p. (1994), 5.
  • ⁴ Plumb, Henry Blackman, The Plumbs, 1635-1800, 2nd Ed., Peely, Pennsylvania: Unknown (1893), 25.